Usually you don't think about re-releasing an old movie.

Well, listen, you know, the Czech saying is, you know, when you are drowning you are grabbing even a little twig. That's what all Czechs were doing, grabbing for... with the hope for this little twig.

I get out of the taxi and it's probably the only city which in reality looks better than on the postcards, New York.

Because if you lived, as I did, several years under Nazi totalitarianism, and then 20 years in communist totalitarianism, you would certainly realize how precious freedom is, and how easy it is to lose your freedom.

For me, speaking is work. It's not like when you breathe.

I think everybody dreamt somehow to make a film in Hollywood, you know.

What I like about masturbation is that you don't have to talk afterwards.